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Salary negotiations are my friend
doo dah... doo dah
Salary negotiations are my friend
oh da doo dah day....

Palms are still sweaty but it's looking pretty good!

Weenie Story #752.5

It might all work out for the best... kindasorta I hope.

The atty I was supposed to meet w/ Friday p.m. called me back and put it off until today because the other parner who was supposed to sit in on the interview was called into court. Which was really great because Friday I was dressed too casual to go to an interview... but then I had all weekend to think about it. SO...

I took the advice of the attys here in our office and confronted my boss when he walked in the door this morning. Let him know exactly what was going on and that since he ignored my request for a raise FOUR FREEKING MONTHS AGO I've looked elsewhere and am going to be making some changes. Yes, I hate to admit that my boss is so clueless that everyone else in the office, along with most of the whole town knows how dissilusioned I've been and that I was looking (add to that all of you across the country who know LOL)...supposedly they are going to match the salary of the other job to keep me here. Part of me is not believing this, but at the same time, gosh. I've been here almost 5 years and can play on the internet and have great vacation time... and the only thing I hate about my job here (beside the sec of course) is not getting a raise for FOUR FREEKING YEARS...

I feel like a weenie for giving in.
I have had an upset stomach and been a mess since Thursday thinking about the possbility of going through the shit associated with starting a new job. Losing all my vacation time. Factor in losing all of my internet time and being able to blog... It has been a rough few days. I'm still not positive I'm making the right decision... BUT...

If it means not having to give up my vacation time AND getting to still visit with y'all... I'm staying. I feel like a weenie also because in my boss' usual stupid style, he got me out of the room before committing to a dollar amount.

Jeez I hope I'm doing the right thing...

Gotta run...

Yeah Baby!

Guess who just got called for a 2nd interview??

1 hour. I'm so there.

Keep those good vibes coming my way....

At LAST....The Interview!!

8:14 this morning I was on the phone with an attorney from a local firm who asked me at that very moment if I could come right now for an interview. Thank GOD I didn't have jeans on and was dressed appropriate today. Had taken extra time with my hair. It was so unexpected. By 8:20 I was pulling into their parking lot, resume in hand (word of mouth in the small town, Baby! ...one of their LA's had moved away...) and by 8:25 I was in the interview... slipped back into the office 2minutes35seconds before my boss came in to work...

The interview went well. Cross your fingers. Pray. Light insence. Whatever do, now is the time. It's a bigger firm. More reputable. Benefits. The whole package.

I might not be able to blog there but you know what? At this point if I can make my escape from here, it's going to be a VERY, VERY good thing.

Shhh! Guess Who's Going To Court?

Hilarious.
She prances around here like the freeking queen.
And man oh man, remember how I used to say the old one was inconsiderate? Oh man, can you believe this one is absolutely worse?
The attorney who used to just sigh when the old one was gone all the time? Well he's yelling on a daily basis now! "WHERE'S SHE AT?????" because she can't stay in the office for more than an hour without having to pop over and show her shoes off to some other attorney or whatver. I'm serious. This is like a total re-run, but with a different character. A remake of a bad movie.
All day she's been telling everyone who comes in the door, calls, or passes by on the street that she has to go to HER_ARRAIGNMENT tomorrow. The funny thing is, the atty from our firm who's going with her was scratching his head earlier because he doesn't do criminal work.
Will let you know how it all turns out...

Psssst! A Secret...

GuessWhoGotArretedOverTheWeekend?

Yep, you guessed it.

TheSec!

Monday...Monday...

I'm still around.
Haven't posted because I haven't had anything nice to say.

TGIF!

I've been trying to remember all morning if I told you about this or not. If I did, shut up and just skip this part because I'm going to tell you again.

Remember the old sec? (DUH, of course you do!) I've kept in touch with her while she's been gone... She didn't even last 6 weeks at her spiffy new big-city job. Don't know if she quit or they fired her, but it was over quickly. She hasn't worked since, either.

Have I told you that I really don't like the new one?
I don't.
I don't.
I don't.

Happy B-Day Blog!

My blog is 2 years old this week :)

On the work front...
The sec cannot stay put. She's a mess!
Every 45 minutes or less, she has to run out the door to go to this office or that office, she is meeting with attys and judges and is such a whirlwind I just can't seem to keep up with her antics. She has found this new saying... "Are you ignoring me again?" (I tend to tune her out as she rambles on the whole time she's here about nonsensical things I don't give a damn about...) (wait. THAT IS, WHEN she's not on the phone. She usually has her cell phone in her ear with a personal call, and at least one line tied up with the office phone in her other ear on a personal call... and sometimes even one line on hold on a personal call!) She hasn't yet come to the realization that I don't care about her sex life, her ex-husband or her ex-husband's girlfriend, or her brother's fluff of the week. It IS getting easier to ignore her though. Slowly. Give me another couple of weeks and I'll show you her time sheet... it's getting sort of funny...

On the home front...
All is well. Ms.Blue should be home in 45 days.

And with me...
(SORRY IDGIE...YOU WANT TO STOP READING HERE, DEAR!)
I seem to have that elmer fudd theme song stuck in my head when I'm not in the office... (a hunting we will go!) Rifle season opens in 45 1/2 days so I'm already sporting camo duds and really glad to be out of my office clothes on the weekends.

That's all for now...
Happy 2nd Birthday, Blog!